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Dorset marriages go online

More than 150,000 Dorset marriage transcriptions have been made available online.

The subscription website British Origins has added to its online databases over 150,000 Dorset marriages from 1538-1856. These have been transcribed by Somerset and Dorset Family History Society from parish registers, bishop’s transcripts, and non-conformist circuit registers.

British Origins says that the online records are of the actual marriages (rather than the reading of banns or issuing of licences) and that more than half a million names are searchable, including those of witnesses.